Nanwalek (‘place by lagoon’; Russian: Нануалек), formerly Alexandrovsk (Russian: Александровск) and later English Bay, is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States, that contains a traditional Alutiiq village.

Nanwalek is located on the southwestern tip of the Kenai Peninsula on lower Cook Inlet. The village is approximately 200 miles from Anchorage and is accessible only by boat or airplane. It is most closely located to Port Graham, Seldovia and Homer.

Nanwalek, formerly known as English Bay, is located at the southwest corner of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. The name of the village means “place by the lagoon” as it is located by a lagoon that is connected to an extensive lake system.

Nanwalek, Alaska, is a small village with a population of around 250, primarily Alutiiq people. Located on the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula, it overlooks Cook Inlet and is surrounded by lush forests and mountains.

Nanwalek means "place by the lagoon." The former name was derived from that of nearby English Bay and reported by the Census in 1940. This village appears to have been originally a Russian Post called "Alexandrovsk," meaning "Alexander" (Sarichev, 1826, map5).

Port Graham (Paluwik) and Nanwalek (formerly English Bay or Alexandrovsk) are two small Alaska Native villages at the southwestern tip of the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska.

Port Graham (Paluwik) and Nanwalek (formerly English Bay or Alexandrovsk) are two small Alaska Native villages at the southwestern tip of the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska.

May 29, 2022 · Nanwalek is a community on English Bay, a small embayment on the eastern shore of lower Cook Inlet near the entrance to Kachemak Bay and at the southern entrance to Port Graham on the Kenai Peninsula, about 24 miles (38 km) southwest of Homer and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of the village of Port Graham, Alaska.

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Sugpiaq Ethnohistory is a collaborative, community-based project with the Nanwalek Indian Reorganization Act Council and the community of Nanwalek, Alaska. It is a postdoctoral project based at Dartmouth College’s Native American Studies Program and Institute of Arctic Studies, funded by the National Science Foundation’s Arctic Social ...